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Report on measures to be taken to improve basic statistics on women in agriculture in Africa

Reports & Research
March, 1989
Africa

In Africa, agriculture is the most important sector in national economies. About 80 per cent of the active population works in agriculture. Further, apart from few exceptions, agriculture makes up more than 50 percent of gross national product. Nevertheless, Africa remains the only region in the world in which agricultural production declined between 1970 and 1980, when the growth rate was less than 2 per cent and moreover the gross national product (GNP) per head is one of the lowest in the world.

African agricultural development: reflections on the major lines of advance and the barriers to progress

Journal Articles & Books
February, 1966
Africa

This study attempts to identify the main obstacles to progress and the developments possible. It would therefore be wrong to consider it as a first agricultural plan for Africa, similar to the one called for recently by the Ghanaian Ministry of Agriculture.

Industrialization and economic co-operation for the North African sub-region of the agricultural sector (1963 - 1980) : prepared by the ECA/FAO joint agriculture division

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 1969
Africa
Northern Africa

The ECA/FAO Joint Agriculture Division has been requested to collaborate with the Industry and Housing Division in the preparation of a study on "industrialization and Economic Co-operation for the North African sub-region” by providing the relevant part of the study concerning "The Agricultural Sector, 1963-1980".

Food and agriculture in Africa : Present situation and future prospect

Conference Papers & Reports
January, 1977
Africa

This document surveys the poor, performance and gloomy prospects for agriculture in Africa, which can be improved only if every country undertakes heavy investment to increase food production, storage, processing and distribution and 1mprove the over-all structure, institutions, research and training in the field of food and agriculture.

La situation de l'alimentation des Nations et de l'agriculture en Afrique

Conference Papers & Reports
February, 1965
Africa

Il semble, d' après des estimations préliminaires, que la production agricole du continent africain qui avait augmente d’environ 7 pour 100 en 1962/63 (mais il s’agissait en grande partie d'un redressement, car elle avait baisse l'année précédente), se soit accrue de noms de un pour 100 en 1963/64. Pour la campagne 1964/65, les chiffres sont encore très limites, mais il semble probable qu'elle aura un peu diminue dans le nord-ouest de l’Afrique.

Report on the development and promotion of regional strategic food and agricultural commodities value chains in Africa

Reports & Research
August, 2011
Africa

This paper presents an update on an initiative by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), on the development and promotion of regional strategic food and agricultural commodities value chains in Africa. The cornerstone of the approach to the implementation of this initiative is a pilot scheme in two Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the Common Market for Eastern

Review of the food and agricultural situation in Africa

Reports & Research
September, 1960
Africa

The rate of increase of agricultural production, and especially food production, in Africa appears to have slowed down in the last few years. For 1959/60, the latest season for which data are available, provisional estimates indicate that there was a slight fall in production from the level of the previous year. On a per caput basis, food production appears to have fallen below the prewar level for the last three years.

Africa and the fertilizer Industry : a review of the industry in the light of recent world-wide developments

Reports & Research
September, 1975
Africa

This paper focuses on the reviews of fertilizer situation and recent trend in the African region in relation to those in the worlds the conclusion reached is that in certain area of the region high priority should be according to the development of the basis of indigenous raw materials and energy resource wich are available in abundances. An attempt has been made to estimate rough orders of magnitude of the investment implications based on import substitution on the one hand and combinations of import substitution and increase exports on the others

Production vivrière et agriculture en Afrique : situation actuelle et perspectives d'avenir

Conference Papers & Reports
January, 1977
Africa

Le présent document se compose de trois parties. Dans le première sont passes en revue les résultats médiocres et sombres perspectives de l'agriculture en Afrique. La seconde partie retrace succinctement l'historique, du point de vue institutionnel de la division mixte CEA/FAO de l'agriculture et xposse brièvement son programme de travail. La troisième et dernière partie du document a trait au fonds international pour le développement de l'agriculture.

Étude type de préfaisabilité sur des établissements de fabrication de pesticides effectuée pour la Commission économique des Nations unies pour l'Afrique

Reports & Research
October, 1982
Africa

Le déficit alimentaire croissant et la lourde charge des importations nécessaires pour le combler sont pour les pays africains une source de graves préoccupations. Or le sol de ces pays est très fertile et le climat très favorable. Il est donc possible de réduire le déficit alimentaire. Voir de le transformer en un excédent à condition d’adopter des pratiques agricoles scientifiques.

Fertilité des sols et les engrais en Afrique de l'ouest

Conference Papers & Reports
July, 1964
Africa

Dans ce document nous avons traité des engrais et de la fertilité des sols en partant de la description des sols pour passer ensuite aux travaux expérimentaux et à la vente d’engrais aux agriculteurs. Etant donné, l’étendue du sujet, nous avons dû résumer considérablement et nous limiter à l’essentiel dans chaque section.